MESSENGER CAMP, S. OF V., NO. 95.

Henry Clay Messenger, for whom this Camp was named, was born in Utica, Licking county, Ohio, November 7, 1829. His parents were David and Martha Messenger. He began to clerk in a store when fourteen years old, but not liking indoor life, learned civil engineering when sixteen years old. He was on a number of the leading railroads of Ohio. He enlisted in the summer of 1861, in the Fifty-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His commission as captain of Company D is dated November 14, 1861. Captain Messenger was a brave and gallant soldier, was never known to shirk or shrink from duty in any form. In personal appearance he was tall, fine looking and commanding. He was ever the courteous Christian gentleman. He died at Moscow, Tennessee, April 27, 1863, of typhoid pneumonia, contracted by exposure in the line of duty.

The Camp was organized March 29, 1886, with thirty-one charter members:

HENRY W. HIGGINS CAMP, NO. 114, S. OF V.,

Was organized July 6, 1886. Meets first and third Saturdays in each month. Henry Whitfield Higgins, for whom the Camp was named, was born in Jackson county, September 9, 1837. He enlisted in Company H, Twenty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in August, 1862, and veteraned with his regiment. He was promoted to orderly sergeant soon after he entered the service, and acted successively as first lieutenant and captain. His record in the war is one that any soldier can point to with pride. Early in life he identified himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and until the time of his death was an active and consistent member; a steward in the church, and superintendent of its Sunday-school at Keystone. He was a charter member of Post No. 231, and an officer in that Post in 1885. Died May 23,1886, leaving a wife and several children. His memory is fondly cherished by all who knew him.

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